Justin Huish

Huish arrived at the 1996 Atlanta Games ranked no higher than 24th in the world and left with both men's golds, individual and team, the first male archer to win the pair. The knockout matches were short 12-arrow contests in front of a loud home crowd, and he beat Sweden's Magnus Petersson 112-107 in the individual final. It is the clearest case on this list of an archer whose level rose with the occasion rather than his ranking.